Dragon Age: Origins - Gift Giving Guide

This is a comprehensive guide to where the gifts are located
in Ferelden and who you should give them to for maximum influence. Written By
parico65 at IGN

Source of info: Personally grabbed all the gifts during a
play through. I used the crappy Prima Guide as a reference to double check some
of my findings. Please don't buy the Prima Guide it's the worst written guide
I have ever seen.

Gifts are ways to gain influence outside of your actions and
through conversations. Gifts start at +5 influence if it's not something the
character wants and each gift after that loses one point until you are down to
one point. If it's a gift they really want its starts at 10 and counts down to
5. Certain characters also have special gifts that you need to unlock through
conversations with them. (Those with a * by them) These gifts always give you
10 points or more it depends on how high your influence is the lower it is the
more points you will get for the gift.

All Characters except for dog and Alistair can be asked to
leave or will leave or even fight the PC for certain behaviors in the game.
Having a high influence prevents most of this from occurring

Character Summaries: ***SPOILERS BELOW***

Alistar

Alistar automatically joins you at Ostagar and stays with
you for rest of the game regardless of what you do except for one act which
well you'll see if you do it. To gain influence with him just baby him like
the boob he is and perform good acts. (Romance only by Female PC)

Dog

Found after Ostagar if you did a Mabari Hound quest. If
you're a Human noble he should already be with you. He's a dog his influence
never changes it's always maxed. He will however find you items and other
gifts if you ask him to look for them. Put him in the party and see what he
finds.

Loghain

Can be forced to join you at Lands meet this can result in Alistair's
death. Regardless he won't be in your party if Loghain is. There aren't many
gifts for Loghain however if you don't rip him a new one and say you respect
his choices you'll gain 25 influence right away. He's got an interesting
background story. By the time you get him there aren't any ways to gain
influence story wise. Show him respect and you should be able to get him to
around 75 through gifts and dialogue. A good character to toss some of the
junk gifts at.

Leliana

She will ask to join you in the Tavern of Loithering you can
tell her no and she will leave temporarily. You'll meet her again by the exit
to Loithering if you decline her second offer she's gone for good. To gain
influence with her perform good actions and don't badmouth her religion. She
will turn on you should you perform a certain evil act and you'll need to kill
her. (Romance Female and Male PC)

Morrigan

Morrigan joins your group after Ostagar and will stay till
the end unless you tell her to leave. If you are playing an evil character
you and Morrigan will get along fine. Some good acts will lose influence with
her. Don't insult her in conversation and you'll be fine. (Romance only by
Male PC)

Ohgren

He will force his way into the group in Orzammar and stays
with you when you leave. If he says to leave him alone in camp do so for a
modest influence gain. Be nice in conversations Ohgren is a bit slow at getting
his point across. One of the harder characters to max as there aren't a lot of
gifts out there and he seems to be unaffected by the PCs decisions in game play.

Shale Stone Prisoner DLC

Shale is a tough one her gifts start at +5 and down to one I
used the Prima guide for some of her gift locations. Tell her she's useful and
be agreeable to earn influence in conversation. Another inconsistent character
she will fight against you if you take her to the anvil of the void and side
with Branka. If you kill Caridan she will leave if she wasn't there. However
she suggested I kill all the mages at the tower for fun so go figure.
Performing her personal quest gains a lot of influence I got +34 for doing it.

Sten

Sten is in the center of Loithering in a Cage. If you don't
free him before completing another main quest he will be gone for good. Sten
responds favorably to some evil acts and disapproves of senseless good acts
that detract the PC from his main task of getting to the Archdemon. Gaining influence
is easy just be firm with him and don't mock his beliefs. There aren't a lot
of gifts out there for him so maxing him is a challenge.

Wynne

She will join you at the mages tower if you allow here to.
Otherwise she'll force a confrontation resulting in her death. She will force
the issue at the end of the tower should you decide to purge it and can die
there as well. She like Liliena will try to kill you should you do a certain
evil act. Wynne likes good deeds so a good PC will gain influence fast with
her. Be nice in conversation and try to get her to warm status to open her
special abilities.

Zevran

After you complete one main quest you will meet Zevran and
have the option to kill him or talk to him. Depending on your influence level
with him you may be forced to kill him later. He responds inconsistently
sometimes he's all for senseless murder others he will protest so it's a coin
toss with him. Play your cards right and you can have a Foursome with him
Liliena and Isabella at the Pearl in Denerim. This requires a maxed coercion
skill and hardening Liliena while in and active romance with her. As long as
you aren't mean to him he's fairly easy to gain influence with and will likely
ask to sleep with the pc very early regardless of gender. Tell him early for a
small loss (5 or less) if you aren't interested to avoid a major (-25)
influence loss later.

Gifts Sorted By Character

Gift Name

Location

Recipient

Description

Alistar

Alistair's Mother's
Amulet*

Redcliffe Castle

Alistair

Desk in room west of exit
to 2nd floor

Black Rune stone

Deep Roads

Alistair

Aeducan Thaig Chest in NW
area with several Darkspawn near the bloody sack

Duncan's Shield*

Denerim

Alistair

Warehouse Hidden room
after rescuing the Queen and Riordan tells you about the cache

Onyx Demon Statuette

Brecillian Forest

Alistair

E Brecillian Forest pile
of bones near gravestone

Small Carved Statuette

Loithering

Alistair

Crate next to Bodahns cart
before leaving

Stone Dragon Statuette

Redcliffe Castle

Alistair

Southern west room 2nd
floor in chest

Stone Warrior Statuette

Ruined temple caverns

Alistair

Pile of dragon filth east
area with the drakes and cages

White Rune stone

Tower of Mages

Alistair

Dropped by Abomination
center room of 3rd floor

Dog

Beef Bone

Tower of Mages

Dog

4th floor Chest behind
Dragon lings also has 2 Drake scales in it

Lamb Bone

Redcliffe Castle

Dog

North rectangle room with
4 Mabari enemies

Large Bone

Haven

Dog

Village Store

Ox Bone

Brecillian Forest

Dog

Pile of Rubble W
Brecillian Forest North of Mystical Site of Power by fallen Tree

Veal bone

Denerim

Dog

Chest in run down
apartments in ailenage on route to free the slaves

Leliana

Andrastes Grace*

Redcliffe Village

Leliana

Next to Landmark tree and
windmill in redcliffe

Andrastes Grace*

Brecillian Forest

Leliana

W Brecillian forest next
to a log and close to a waterfall in nw corner

Andrastes Grace*

Denerim

Leliana

Near Landmark tree in
eleven alienage

Blue Suede Shoes

Old Tegrin

Leliana

Random encounter on world
maps appears sporadically

Bronze Symbol of Andraste

Loithering , Chantry

Leliana

Behind bookshelves on
south of revered mother locked chest

Chantry Amulet

Tower of Mages

Leliana

SR mages qtrs 2nd floor w
side dead soldier in room with a black vile right of the toppled statue

Cute Little Nug*

Dust Town

Leliana

Idle Dwarf standing by
dead nugs in Dust town Liliena must have mentioned she thinks they are cute
first needs about 50 influence with her

Etched Silver Symbol

Deep Roads

Leliana

Ruck Ortan Thaig Middle
East area if you don't kill him he's got some good items to sell

Golden Symbol of Andraste

Orzammar Commons

Leliana

Legnar Left Side before
Dust Town

Silver Sword of Mercy

Old Tegrin

Leliana

Random encounter on world
maps appears sporadically

Steel Symbol of Andraste

Denerim

Leliana

Brother Gentivis House

Loghain

Ancient Map of Imperium

Denerim

Loghain

Wonders Of Thedas

Botanist's Map of Thedas

Denerim

Loghain

Castle Redcliffe main
floor after lands meet

Current Map of Ferelden

Denerim

Loghain

Alariths store in
Ailienage he won't sell to you if you don't free all slaves